Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-31

one ofthem: "The Schuylki1 ,countrymen
came here for fight, determined to force
the &c. 900 employees OF the Reading into
an unequal contest"
REFUSES TO ARBITRATE.
READING, Pa, Dec. 30.-This morning
the convention made public the cores
pondence of the Knights of Labor and the
Miners and LsboreTs' Amalgamated As
sociations in Pottsville with President
Corbin. In the first dispatch the men
say thev are deslrous of arbitrating their
demands Till satisfactory settlement
is reached work to continue as usual
pending arbitration.
To this President Corbin replied that
he had nothing to srbitrate.
The men replied that "public interests
should not suffer-" and urgently appealed
that negotiations be opened, in hopes of
an amicable adjustment.
President Coroin replied to this that
the company had nothing to discuss
OR srbitrste: He atds: "Any dictation
by any one III our employ as to how we
shall do our business viii; DE followed by
the immediate discharge of the meddler."
He says that the employees must decide SIS
between the Knights OF Labor and the
company. BE adds: "If such allegiance
is to the Knights of Labor first such men
will not be tolerated in our service q
minute
To this the men replied that they wanted
show in the pending difficulty, but would
contest every inch OF ground, inspired
with the motto, "No surrender until
victory is complete"
THE RESOLUTION TO STRIKE
READING, PA, Dec. 30.-The conven-
| ton OF Reading Railway employees after
continuous session OF nearly four hours,
adjourned at $3.50 O'Clock this morning.
At that time it was decided TO issue Or
ders for q general strike to take place st
u O'Clock to-day. Every man in the en-
ploy OF the Reading Company with the ex-
ceptiOn OF the passenger train crews,
trackmen and signal tower men and
crossing watchmen WAS to 60 on q
strike, and fifteen minutes after
the meeting the signal was flashed
across the wires to Philadelphia
and Williamsport. The resolution says
that the men shall strike and remain out
until the company shall agree to arbitrate
| all differences. This includes the shop
men in this city who took the initiative in
refusing to go out early this week, thus
| breaking the backbone of the strike at
that time, and every man who belongs to
| the Knights. A resolution was also passed
Offering a reward CT $4,000 for
the arrest of any person who
in any way destroy or ipjure any of the
compsny's property. The order includes
not only the hands OF the main line, but
over the whole system and is to take
effect st noon to-day. it IS thought that
the shop hsrids in this city will not obey
| the order.
| After the adjournment of the conven-
| ton the miners had separate session,
and did not adjourn until O'Clock this
morning. They transacted nothing
definite in reference TO striking, but
agreed to give full financial and moral
support 20 the strikers on the railroad.
The SchuylkilI country delegation con-
slsts Of 125 delegates, and they almost to
8 an predicted that the company's $1,000
miners would strike il they were not as
sured of the continuation Of the pres
ent advance. The miners did not
decide to strike with the railroad men
because they are working by an agree
ment With the company which is binding
until January l, and because they still
have hopes that the company will con-
! tinue the per cent. advance. Chairman
Lae of the executive committee, before
he left Reading this morning, declared
that if the strike took place 1t would
not only affect the Schuylkill
miners, but those in the Wyoming
field as we'll as the Lehigh miners. He
felt sure that they would ell remain firm,
thus placing on strike at one time 5000
miners, and not pound of coal could
then be mined. Last nights convention
consisted of $50 delegstes-s maj ority OF
whom came from the coal regions, the
Lehigh and Wyoming miners being also
represented. The convention was secret.
Hardly q delegate arrived before pm,
and every one had disappeared
from the city before daylight. The COM
pany's officials in this city are not greatly
exercised over the new order to the rail-
readers to strike. They say trains are
all running on time, that they have sill the
men they wan. and others in reserve, and
that the only danger is of a coal famine il
the miners should strike.
EVERYTHING RUNNING sMOoTHLY.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. 29-Tnere is
a uniformed police guard at every en-
trance to the Port Richmond coal
whsrves. There has been no trouble of
any kind. Each of the seven wharf en-
gines st work on the coal wharves to-
day was in charge OF Pinkerton spolice,
who rode on them shout the Port Rich
mond yard to protect the crews. No at
tempt WAS made to modest them. Agent
Keims said the seven crews who struck
yesterday, came to his office this morning
and asked to be reinstated, but he informed
them they were discharged and could not
again enter the company's employ. The
stevedores who went out yesterday did
not return to work to-day. Agent Keim
dispatched tug into the city where
large force of stevedores were secured and
taken to the freight wharyes and set to
work. There was nothing to-day at
either the Ninth or Broad Street stations
that would indicate the existence Of
strike. All trains moved SO usual.
UNDER PINKERTON's CARE.
ELIzABKTH, N. j., Dec. 29.-Work Was
resumed on the Reading docks this morn
ing. Two steamboats, arrived with l75
men of sll nationaIities. many expert
enced coal handlers. They were imme-
diately put to work under the protection
of PiDkerton's men. Sheriff GlasleY has